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Judicial Review For The Public Lands: Comment To Eric Biber, Shi-Ling Hsu
Judicial Review For The Public Lands: Comment To Eric Biber, Shi-Ling Hsu
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Saving Lives Through Administrative Law And Economics: A Response, Shi-Ling Hsu
Saving Lives Through Administrative Law And Economics: A Response, Shi-Ling Hsu
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The Identifiability Of Bias In Environmental Law, Shi-Ling Hsu
The Identifiability Of Bias In Environmental Law, Shi-Ling Hsu
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The identifiability effect is the human propensity to have stronger emotions regarding identifiable individuals or groups than for abstract ones. The more information that is available about a person, the more likely this person’s situation will influence human decisionmaking. This human propensity has biased law and public policy against environmental and ecological protection because the putative economic victims of environmental regulation are usually easily identifiable workers that lose their jobs, while the beneficiaries—people who avoid a premature death from air or water pollution, people who would be saved by medicinal compounds available only in rare plant and animal species, and …